2013年9月29日星期日

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Daughter: Pastor would tell killer come to church

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:15 PM PDT

This photo released by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office shows Woodrow Karey, Jr. after being charged in the shooting death of Pastor Ronald J. Harris, Sr., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Police said a gunman walked into the Tabernacle of Praise Worship Center in Lake Charles and shot Pastor Ronald J. Harris Sr. "as he was preaching." Harris was pronounced dead at the scene. Karey, 53, of Lake Charles, is charged with second-degree murder and was held in the parish jail Saturday. (AP Photo/Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The daughter of a southwest Louisiana pastor who was killed at a revival service says that if her father could talk to his killer, he'd say, "I forgive you and I love you."


Israelis held as Jerusalem Christian graves vandalised

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:37 PM PDT

Israeli policemen inspect vandalized tombstones at a Christian cemetery outside Jerusalem's Old City on September 29, 2013Jerusalem (AFP) - Police on Sunday caught four young Israelis red-handed as they vandalised Christian tombstones in a cemetery in the holy city of Jerusalem, a spokesman said.


Jewish vandals smash tombstones in Jerusalem Christian cemetery

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 07:41 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Four suspected Jewish nationalists were arrested for smashing headstones in a Christian cemetery near Jerusalem's walled Old City on Sunday. The four men, two of whom were settlers from the occupied West Bank, were throwing concrete blocks at about 15 tombstones when they were caught by policemen who were nearby, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Several of the headstones, some of which dated back to the early 1900s, had had stone crosses broken off. ...

Louisiana pastor shot to death while preaching in church

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 06:01 PM PDT

By Kevin Murphy (Reuters) - A Louisiana pastor was shot to death while preaching in church, and the suspected gunman was arrested after surrendering to police, authorities said on Saturday. Woodrow Karey, 53, faces a charge of second degree murder in the slaying late on Friday of Pastor Ronald J. Harris Sr. at the Tabernacle of Praise Worship Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kim Myers said. Lake Charles is 190 miles west of New Orleans. Karey walked into the church, shot Harris twice with a shotgun and then fled, Myers said. ...
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